Mailart Monday !

Hello everyone,

It's my turn to show you some mailart for VivaLasVegaStamps! I have altered a boring white envelope today. I hope you like it and maybe do some yourself to brighten up the mail !

Here is the front...

And this is the back ...

This envelope was quite easy to make. I started with the front. First I masked off the address part.  I then used a mini gelli plate, acrylic paint by PaperArtsy and a stencil. Unfortunately I put so much over the top that you can't really see the pattern anymore.... 

I then used a load of different stamps to add more interest. I used the same paints and also some archival inks in similar colours and Jet Black. 

When I was happy with how it looked, I drew a black line around the address area and stamped the Queen of Hearts on separate card stock and coloured her with Copic Markers. I cut her out and adhered her to the front of the envelope. 

The back was even easier; I just brayered the paint on, did the stamping in the same way as on the front and that was that ! 

I used a whole bunch of stamps :

19568 - Double Coffee Rings

19567 - Writing Circles

19571 - Writing triangles

19574 - Paperclip

19575 - Stitching

19566 - Bubble wrap

14260 - Queen of hearts

5559 - Alice 

19580 - Wonderland

19015 - DIctionary page

19562 - Deliver to 

18098 - Birds on a wire lg. 

Thanks so much for stopping by today ! 

Diamonds are a girl's best friend.

Hello everyone,

I regularly take part in swaps. Like this one where the theme was 'Diamonds are forever'.

This is what I made :

Really simple ATC's. Base is a gelli print, stamp by Dina Wakley over top and added some bling and a sentiment. Done ! 

I also made two cards to go with the ATC's. I used the same stamp on a pre-made background (brush, rubbed dry into the paper then stamped with water), this time without bling, added a sentiment & voila! 

Thanks for stopping by today ! 

Approach with caution.. - my art journal page for this month's Craftstamper

Hello everyone,

6 of the Stampotique Designers were given the chance to make something for the June edition of Craft Stamper and I was one of them. Today I would like to share the art journal I made:

On a background brayered with acrylic paints I placed Newton and his doggie. The white dots were made with modelling paste and a stencil and I also did some stamping. Newton and the dog were coloured with Copic Markers,  cut out and adhered to the page.  

Lastly the sentiment was stamped on white card and cut out. I adhered that to the page as well. 

Hope you get the chance to see the real thing in the magazine; there are 5 more fabulous pieces by different Stampotique Designers in the article. 

Thanks for stopping by today ! 

Happy mother's day !

Hello everyone,

over at the Stampotique Designers' Challenge blog it is Captain Claudine's turn to host and she chose the theme 'Motherly Love'. This is what she said about her challenge:

"Lets make something with our Moms in mind, show Mom how much she means to you this week."

I made a card for my mother for mother's day and here it is:

It is a really simple card. I cut a piece of watercolour paper slightly smaller than the card and stamped this flower on it. I then used my INKtense pencils to colour it and the background a little. The sentiment is Dutch and means something like 'have a great Mother's day', it was typed on my typewriter and adhered to the card. Lastly I cut a piece of blue card stock, a little bigger than the watercolour piece and adhered them together after which I stuck the whole thing onto a white card. 

I only used one stamp this week :

Sunflower Large

We hope you will play along with us this week. You might win one of two $30 vouchers at the end of the month... Just remember no DIGI's and only one entry per person per challenge. Good luck !

Thank  you so much for stopping by !

Follow your heart...

Hello everyone,

I have been accepted into the DecoArt Blogger Outreach Programm and I have made my first piece using mainly DecoArt Products and a few others.... I had lots of fun making this, experimenting along the way. I think the result is not bad !

This tag was painted with Cobalt Turquoise Hue acrylic paint. I then added some crackle paste through an Andy Skinner stencil and let that dry naturally. I you heat it with a heat gun, it won't crackle.. don't ask... haha..

Next I added a few antiquing creams, a bit of interference paint and some more antiquing cream to the crackled cornices, if you can call them that ! I really like the end result. 

Here are some close ups:

Doesn't that look yummy ! 

I also stitched around the edges with my sewing machine. 

Next I stamped the background. I used a stamp from a Mixed Media stamp set by Dina Wakley and white pigment ink for this. It dries back a little lighter which I really like in this tag. 

I then stamped the hearts (Unity Stamps) on the tag and onto some book text. 

I cut out the book text hearts and adhered them on top of the ones on the tag. 

The sentiment (which is only part of a sentiment by Carabelle Studio)  was stamped, like everything else with black Archival Ink and accentuated with a white paint pen. 

Lastly I added some whit and black splatters and a piece of ribbon coloured with the same Cobalt paint I used before. 

Thank you for stopping by today ! 

Bang !

Hello everyone,

and welcome to my first inspiration piece for this month's challenge over at the Country View Crafts' Challenge blog... The theme is 'stencil' and it was chosen by the lovely Christine.

This month alongside our Challenge, we are also running a Blog Hop with a Sizzix Big Shot Machine & Die Bundle as the prize. To enter, you must be a Follower of our Challenge Blog and Hop along to each of our Design Team Members Blogs and leave a comment. We will still be running our normal monthly challenge and those who link their 'Use A Stencil' projects will also be entered into our £20 Voucher draw. The Winners will be picked at random in early June.  

You should have arrived here from Brenda's blog. 

I have made a postcard this time:

This postcard was started with painting it with a layer of Gesso. I then used a Tim Holtz stencil called Latticework with some Grunge paste by Paperartsy. I applied the paste with a pallet knife. 

When this had dried, I used my Distress Crayons to add colour. I just scribbled it on and then blended it with a damp baby wipe. I did lose some of the detail of the grunge paste and to make it stand out more I used a water brush and some kitchen roll to remove some of the colour in the 'valleys'. This way the texture stands out a little more. You can do this with these crayons as they are water soluble. Anyway, I also dripped some water on the surface and mopped it up to create some lighter spots. 

Next I stamped the cat (Crazy Cats by Tim Holtz), the sentiment (Crazy Thoughts by Tim Holtz) and the balloon (Crazy Things by Tim Holtz). I used Memento Ink as I wanted to colour everything with my Copic markers. The balloon string was stamped directly on the card and extended with a pen. I also stamped the cat directly on the card to get his whiskers as they are too thin to cut out. 

After colouring I cut everything out, went around the cut edges with a black Copic Marker to hide any imperfections and then adhered everything to the card. 

That was it ! 

Thanks for stopping by today and I hope you will play along with us !

And don't forget to hop over to Jane's blog from here.

To have a chance to win the prize you will have to visit all the blogs and also leave a comment at each one ! 

Happy Hopping !!!! 

Screaming bunny bloghop

Hello everyone ! 


The Roc Nicholas Design Team is having a blog hop today.  everyone on the design team has made a special piece of art using screaming bunny rubber stamp. please hop along with us and you may be lucky enough to win some incredible art for your collection. 

I made a postcard, and if you'd like a chance to receive this postcard in the mail all you need to do is leave a comment. I will select a random name draw May 8th. please make sure I have a way to contact you should you win.  Thanks and good luck!

If you'd like to add this screaming bunny stamp to your collection, or to see more of Roc’s collection of stamps sold through Stampotique.com you can click here.

To go to the next team member for the Roc Nicholas design team, go to Gemma's blog and see what wonderful goodness she has made ! 

Just in case you got lost on the way, here is the full list for the blog hop:

Roc Nicholas

Corrie Herriman (you are here)

Gemma Maggs

Samantha Read

Karen Hayselden

Sue Waters

So, don't forget to leave a comment if you would like a chance to receive this postcard !

Thank you so much for stopping by today !